VICTORIA – According to sources inside McPherson Library at the University of Victoria, 4th-year Environmental Studies student Jason Tomcik, 23, printed a 56th draft of his research paper investigating deforestation practices and their effects on global warming.
Library patrons noted that Tomcik had spent 15-min editing a paragraph of his 30-page essay when he began rubbing his eyes and subsequently made the decision to print out a new draft.
“I wasn’t making progress with sentence flow on a paragraph that deals with carbon sequestering,” Tomcik said, “and there was this one part where I couldn’t get rid of alliteration so I decided to change the font and print out a copy of my paper to see it with fresh eyes.”
“Sometimes that helps,” he added.
Sources noted that Tomcik considers himself a perfectionist and never submits a paper in his environmental studies courses that he hasn’t revised multiple times. He’s also known to reprint final copies if the staple isn’t perfectly angled. “The environment is too important to take lightly. I just care too much about this topic to submit any sub-par product,” he said. “That would be almost hypocritical.”
At press time, Tomcik was driving to a nearby Starbucks with a hard copy of his 57th draft, where he was planning on checking for any missed spelling and grammar errors before submitting his final digital copy to his professor.
